education
Quotations
Quotations on the topic of ‘education’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).
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“My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.” -George Washington
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“In Holland, they have come to precisely the same conclusion. There they have adopted a system of secular education, because they have found it impracticable to unite the religious bodies in any system of combined religious instruction.” -Richard Cobden
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“I feel that education needs an overhaul – courses are obsolete and grades are on the way out.” -Kent McCord
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“The institution of a public library, containing books on education, would be well adapted for the information of teachers, many of whom are not able to purchase expensive publications on those subjects.” -Joseph Lancaster
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“The supreme lesson of any education should be to think for yourself and to be yourself absent this attainment, education creates dangerous, stupefying conformity.” -Bryant McGill
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“I have said it on several occasions, several times from this podium, that providing a quality education for our children is high on my priority list. I will not stop now.” -Jane D. Hull
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“Of course the EU and member states must work to ensure that people moving from one country to another understand their obligations and their rights in areas like health, road safety and further education.” -John Bruton
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“Where the private sector, or anyone else, has skills, knowledge and resources that can help to deliver a high quality of education and to raise standards, we should use them.” -Estelle Morris
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“I grew up in an non-athletic family, where my parents were interested in music, in literature, in education and art.” -Bill Walton
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“A constitutional democracy is in serious trouble if its citizenry does not have a certain degree of education and civic virtue.” -Phillip E. Johnson
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“A lot of people criticize the primaries, but I think they are absolutely essential to the education of the President of the United States.” -Pierre Salinger
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“It was clear to me that the forms of consciousness of our inherited and acquired historical education – aesthetic consciousness and historical consciousness – presented alienated forms of our true historical being.” -Hans-Georg Gadamer
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“In England, literary pretence is more universal than elsewhere from our method of education.” -James Payn
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“When you Google me, you’ll find a lot of people don’t like Richard Dreyfuss. Because I’m cocky and I present a cocky attitude. But no one has ever disagreed with the notion I represent, that we need more civic education. So far there’s 100 percent support for that.” -Richard Dreyfuss
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“I’d repair our education system or replace it with something that works.” -Larry Niven
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“Even on education, his one accomplishment, the Leave No Child Behind Act, and he has left it unfunded.” -Sidney Blumenthal
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“I feel like in America, we don’t have a kid problem. You think about all these issues that these kids are dealing with, we have an adult problem. We have adults that do not place the priority on our kids to get a valuable education.” -Alonzo Mourning
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“My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.” -Robert M. Hutchins
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“I was taught by my father. He was head of the primary school so I went to his school until I was 11 – I was the youngest of four daughters and we had all been taught by him. But I didn’t really enjoy my secondary education that much, probably because I am a very…
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“We face a choice this election. President Obama is fighting for changes that grow the economy from the middle out and help all Americans succeed – jobs, education, health reform, the DREAM Act, equal pay for women. He is moving us forward with opportunity today for prosperity tomorrow. Mitt Romney wants to take us back…
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“In more than 20 years I’ve spent studying the issue, I have yet to hear a convincing argument that college football has anything do with what is presumably the primary purpose of higher education: academics.” -H. G. Bissinger
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“Education, particularly higher education, will take Africa into the mainstream of globalization.” -John Agyekum Kufuor
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“State governments generate less revenue in a recession. As state leaders struggle to make up for lost revenue, legislatures tend to cut funding for higher education. Colleges, in turn, answer these funding cuts with tuition hikes.” -Arne Duncan
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“I was a teacher for a long time. I taught at a community college: voice, theory, humanities. And nowadays, music education is a dying thing. Funding is being cut more and more and more.” -Jon Secada
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“The Republicans have chosen to neglect young Americans who need assistance with the costs of higher education.” -John Conyers
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“We’ve been working now with computers and education for 30 years, computers in developing countries for 20 years, and trying to make low-cost machines for 10 years. This is not a sudden turn down the road.” -Nicholas Negroponte
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“Pell Grants are, and have been, critically important tools in making higher education a possibility for lower- and middle-income students.” -Christopher Dodd
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“All school districts receive funds from the federal government, through the Department of Education, to support anti-drug education efforts.” -John Walters
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“In regard to education, something has been done by the Provincial Legislature but to build churches, and to place clergymen is a work of greater difficulty.” -John Strachan
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“They basically said that if I didn’t show up for school they’d mark me present, they wouldn’t send the truant officer after me. At 16 I enrolled in something called continuing education. Once a month I’d go out to Jamaica, but I didn’t take it seriously.” -Dave Van Ronk
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“I believe in local control of education.” -Russ Feingold
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“I loved education, and, yes, I did want to go on learning.” -Arthur Hailey
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“Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.” -Nancy Astor
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“President Obama is a principled man who has worked hard to put healthcare and a good education in the reach of millions of Americans and believes that everyone who works hard and plays by the rules, should have a fair shot at the American dream.” -Cristina Saralegui
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“Education enables people and societies to be what they can be.” -Bill Richardson
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“We have been learning since we were children how to make money, buy things, build things. The whole education system is set up to teach us how to think, not to feel.” -Yakov Smirnoff
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“No one bill will cure the problem of spam. It will take a combined effort of legislation, litigation, enforcement, customer education, and technology solutions.” -David Baker
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“What you have in most education software is that they’re catering to the decision-maker who makes the budget allocations, and that decision-maker has a lot of check boxes. Does it do this? Check. Does it do that? Check. They could care less about the end user experience.” -Salman Khan
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“The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.” -Wendell Phillips
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“In choosing global corporate partners UNICEF emphasises compatibility with our core values and looks to build alliances that advance our mission of ensuring the health, education, equality and protection for all the world’s children.” -Carol Bellamy
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“Every child should have the opportunity to receive a quality education.” -Bill Frist
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“The value of an arts education is widely accepted, especially in California.” -Gavin Newsom
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“Progress for black Americans depends on good schools because education is the last great equalizer.” -Alphonso Jackson
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“I’m not only a lawyer, I have a post doctorate degree in federal tax law from William and Mary. I work in serious scholarship and work in the United States federal tax court. My husband and I raised five kids. We’ve raised 23 foster children. We’ve applied ourselves to education reform. We started a charter…
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“As a former high school teacher, I know that investing in education is one of the most important things we can do, not only for our children, but for the benefit of our whole community.” -Ed Pastor
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“It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.” -Agnes Repplier
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“I learned a lot from that first record and I learned a lot from my experiences touring, but really the biggest education I got over the past two years was learning the importance of arrangements.” -Vanessa Carlton
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“I went to drama school for four years at Carnegie Mellon, conservatory training before television comedy. I was doing Shakespeare and Chekov plays. It’s about delivering on the promise of a $100,000 education and taking the shackles off and trying the hand at my craft. I’m thrilled with what I’ve seen so far.” -Josh Gad
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“The best math lesson we can teach college students this year is to subtract a tuition increase and benefit from the dividends of higher education.” -Jodi Rell
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“People who don’t read seem to me mysterious. I don’t know how they think or learn about other people. Novels are a very important part of our education.” -Nina Bawden
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“Vocational education programs have made a real difference in the lives of countless young people nationwide they build self-confidence and leadership skills by allowing students to utilize their unique gifts and talents.” -Conrad Burns
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“I graduated from the University of Michigan with a BA in Communications and left formal education behind.” -Sarah Zettel
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“I would have been about seven years old when the formative years of my competitive football education began. I was playing in the local leagues around Manchester, playing against lads from tough areas who had been taught they had to fight for everything.” -Gary Neville
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“The point of my work is to show that culture and education aren’t simply hobbies or minor influences.” -Pierre Bourdieu
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“My mother was the influence in my life. She was strong she had great faith in the ultimate triumph of justice and hard work. She believed passionately in education.” -John H. Johnson
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“I cherish the creation of public space and services, especially health, housing and the comprehensive education system which dared to give so many of us ideas ‘above our station.’” -Frances O’Grady
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“All around as a person, on right decisions, on holding your money, on doing your trade, a good education is a must. I don’t think I would’ve done as good without an education.” -Bobby Vinton
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“States have the responsibility to create rules and conditions for growth and development, and to channel the benefits to all citizens by providing education and making people able to participate in the economies, and in decision-making.” -Anna Lindh
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“Today there are people trying to take away rights that our mothers, grandmothers and great-grandmothers fought for: our right to vote, our right to choose, affordable quality education, equal pay, access to health care. We the people can’t let that happen.” -Kerry Washington
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“Too many vital education dollars that should be spent in the classroom are bouncing around in the federal bureaucracy.” -Mark Kennedy
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“I’ve got a very deep and abiding passion about education being far more than buildings and textbooks it’s what children bring into school with them.” -Johann Lamont
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“This is not a zero-sum game. We know that if we provide access and education, particularly where there are gaps in the market, we will create more jobs, we will create more growth, and we will create more activity in the U.S. market, which will be good for our economy.” -Karen Mills
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“I agree that it is not just the extremists who harbor bad thoughts or engage in bad acts, but they are usually the source of the polarization and try to keep education and communication of the main stream from moving forward.” -Joichi Ito
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“Only time, education and plenty of good schooling will make anti-segregation work.” -Nat King Cole
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“If you can feed your family, give them an education, then you are a success.” -Jami Gertz
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“I do not want to speak about overpopulation or birth control, but I think education is the way to give new impetus to the poverty question.” -Harri Holkeri
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“With my ministry of light, part of what I do is work on the California Alliance For Arts Education.” -Sally Kirkland
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“The people in Iraq lived essentially good lives. They had brilliant health and education systems. Saddam actually created an incredible infrastructure in a very difficult country, but they were a Mafia family. If you said anything against that regime or that family you would be killed instantly.” -Dominic Cooper
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“I’m essentially a momma’s boy with a good education.” -Tom Sizemore
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“The West has been able to bring Afghanistan a much better health service, better education, better roads, a better economy, though some have benefited more some have benefited less from that economic well-being in Afghanistan.” -Hamid Karzai
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“What will we do in a globalised world? All human beings are equal, so they have the same right to have the same lifestyle-the same social security, jobs, education.” -Joschka Fischer
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“When the state or federal government control the education of all of our children, they have the dangerous and illegitimate monopoly to control and influence the thought process of our citizens.” -Michael Badnarik
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“What good is my parents’ wealth and education and upbringing if I’m not contributing to the world?” -Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
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“The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.” -John Sterling
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“Education has fundamentally changed my life. It’s perhaps the mission of my life. I’m wed to it in a very powerful and personal way. And I chose the pathway that I believe could make me the most significant on changing the outcomes that we see now in North Carolina.” -Bev Perdue
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“I think any time you have too much education in one certain field, that can sometimes play against you.” -Amber Tamblyn
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“My dad grew up in a working-class Jewish neighbourhood, and I got a scholarship from my dad’s union to go to college. I went there to get an education, not as an extension of privilege.” -Ezra Koenig
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“I’m a huge fan of music in schools and music education because that’s how I grew up.” -Kris Allen
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“What the mayors care about is, ‘How can I get money to invest in the infrastructure in my city? How do we put people back to work, lower the unemployment rate, provide for job training programs? How do we make class sizes smaller and make investments in our children from an education standpoint?’” -Michael Nutter
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“Civic education and civic responsibility should be taught in elementary school.” -Donna Brazile
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“This journey is not over. Our education initiatives have so much momentum, and we’re committed to sharing even more stories from the Arctic when we return.” -Ann Bancroft
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“I only had a high school education and believe me, I had to cheat to get that.” -Sparky Anderson
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“During this period at the Department of Education, my working relationship with Judge Thomas was positive.” -Anita Hill
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“My education and background thoroughly inform my writing.” -David Brin
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“My idea of the ideal sex education site doesn’t exist.” -Susie Bright
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“The College Access and Opportunity Act addresses the important need to make higher education more affordable and easier to access for low and middle-income students.” -Ron Lewis
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“I tell young people to prepare themselves as best they can for a world that grows more challenging every day-get the best education they can, and couple that education with real-life experience in social justice work.” -Julian Bond
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“My father was an autodidact. It wasn’t a middle-class house. Shopkeepers are aspirant. He paid for me to go to private school. He was denied an education – he had a horrible childhood. He got a place at a grammar school and wasn’t allowed to go.” -Kate Atkinson
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“You see, some non-Catholic friends of mine have questioned the depth of my faith because of the fact that I have a good education.” -Robert Vaughn
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“You cannot blame the mismanagement of the economy or the fact that we have not invested adequately in education in order to give our people the knowledge, the skills and the technology that they need in order to be able to use the resources that Africa has to gain wealth.” -Wangari Maathai
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“Poverty does not cause violence and terrorism. Lack of education does not cause terrorism.” -John O. Brennan
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“You look at public education system, charter schools, infrastructure, in so many ways New Orleans has come back stronger.” -Drew Brees
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“I came up poor. My mother only had a fourth-grade education. My dad didn’t have any education at all. But they were very structured. They worked hard. You know, they didn’t complain. They didn’t murmur. And they believe in the Christ.” -Evander Holyfield
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“Listen, if the mayor wants to have a debate about education in this city, I got three words: bring it on.” -Anthony Weiner
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“Freedom Summer, the massive voter education project in Mississippi, was 1964. I graduated from high school in 1965. So becoming active was almost a rite of passage.” -Danny Glover
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“It goes against the grain of modern education to teach students to program. What fun is there to making plans, acquiring discipline, organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self critical.” -Alan Perlis
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“I’ve seen people with a tremendous amount of educational background in the field not turn out to be terribly good actors, and I’ve seen people with no education in the field turn out to be people that I admire quite a bit.” -Ron Silver
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“Fully 57 percent of American college students are women. Life insurance companies sell more policies to women than to men. As women continue to draw on experience and education, they’re accelerating their numbers in upper management, too.” -Suzanne Fields
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“We must ensure our system of higher education offers world-class quality for a world-class economy.” -Bob Taft
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“Most Hispanics are concerned with the same issues other Americans are – the economy, jobs, education. Similar to Main Street America.” -Henry Bonilla
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“And I thought that was the best way for me to participate, because standing in the crowd and listening is a fantastic education, but it’s not my nature. I need to be involved. So I did that instead.” -Andre Braugher
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“You need education. You need subsistence protection. We need jobs and social security. These are preconditions under which it will perhaps be possible to deal with these complex circumstances.” -Ulrich Beck
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“We had great faith that with patience, understanding, and education, that my family and I could be helpful in changing their minds and attitudes around.” -Ryan White
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“I’ve been working with the National Lung Health Education Program to raise awareness about Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.” -Loni Anderson
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“Education is the key. But it’s the kind of education that we teach that is the key. We don’t have it.” -Edward James Olmos
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“My parents are very hard working people who did everything they could for their children. I have two brothers and they worked dog hard to give us an education and provide us with the most comfortable life possible. My dad provided for his family daily. So, yes, that is definitely in my DNA.” -David Oyelowo
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“Parents should conduct their arguments in quiet, respectful tones, but in a foreign language. You’d be surprised what an inducement that is to the education of children.” -Judith Martin
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“A university is not a political party, and an education is not an indoctrination.” -David Horowitz
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“There is no war on women. Women are doing well. But women are thoughtful. And what we in the Republican Party and across the country, Republican, Independents and Democrat women say is we’re more thoughtful than a label. We care about jobs and the economy and healthcare and education. We care about a lot of…
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“I knew from a young age that I wanted to be an actor. I never even thought about other careers. The acting field is certainly not the path many Indian parents encourage their children to take, but mine were very supportive. They wanted me to have an education, but understood that this is what I…
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“Let them be reassured, it has never been one of our intentions to ban religion in society, but solely to protect the national education system from any conspicuous display of religious affiliation.” -Jean-Pierre Raffarin
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“Napoleon was probably the equal at least of Washington in intellect, his superior in education. Both of them were successful in serving the state.” -Matthew Simpson
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“I am less disposed to think of a West Point education as requisite for this business than I was at first. Good sense and energy are the qualities required.” -Rutherford B. Hayes
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“Many seventh graders I know in Illinois, as well as around the Nation, are studying the Constitution. I was pretty impressed with the quality of education our children are receiving because they had not expected me to ask them about it.” -Melissa Bean
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“I definitely had a top-notch education.” -Paul Giamatti
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“Latinos care about education, yes, so we need reform, not just money.” -Susana Martinez
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“I think an education is beneficial, but whether it takes an education to be successful in the arts is a whole other question.” -Isaiah Mustafa
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“Education is the silver bullet to improve this Nation’s standing worldwide… and our teachers know that.” -Solomon Ortiz
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“My job is to make sure that if you’re a family in Florida, your children can get a good education and you have the opportunity for a job. That’s my job and that’s what I think about every day.” -Rick Scott
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“Unless we make education a priority, an entire generation of Americans could miss out on the American dream.” -Blanche Lincoln
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“I do think that a general liberal arts education is very important, particularly in an uncertain changing world.” -Steve Case
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“So what it boils down to, in my humble opinion, is that we need to support the arts in schools, and at every other level in the education of children.” -Phil Lesh
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“I think that every child grows up with the ideas that what we are given, is our society. Your education, and your mother and father, they tell you this is how it is, but then you hit adolescence and you think, ‘Is it? Why? Why is it like that?’ Sometimes that questioning leads to something…
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“The very effect of the education they were given… was to make men think and, thinking, they became less and less satisfied with the miserable pays they received.” -John Grierson
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“I have a greater goal – to empower young people through music education.” -Ruben Studdard
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“Our mother was a very religious and observant Jew, our father less so. She was kind of driving the religious education, so for us it was more a burden and an obligation when we were kids at that age.” -Joel Coen
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“Health and education are always issues.” -Helen Clark
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“And I’m very surprised that all this stuff actually worked out to where I could have a career in film, gain the benefit of my education, and be thankful that I was able to break into my craft as an actor.” -Terrence Howard
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“It’s amazing to me that they’re cutting physical education programs in the school systems.” -Shannon Miller
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“I will continue my activities related to education in one way or another. I certainly would have at the top my agenda, with respect to education, the need to do much better with modern educational technology.” -Major Owens
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“The American Dream is still alive out there, and hard work will get you there. You don’t necessarily need to have an Ivy League education or to have millions of dollars startup money. It can be done with an idea, hard work and determination.” -Bill Rancic
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“I think of it as a good opportunity to let, in particular, school kids know that this job and other interesting jobs in science and engineering are open to anyone who works hard in school and gets a good education and studies math and science. And that it’s not just for a select group of…
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“You can’t stand for too many things. You can’t use the bully pulpit for too many things. So, I promise you, every day, I am going to talk about jobs, spending, and education.” -Meg Whitman
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“It’s commonly said that people who’ve been ill in childhood and who’ve had an upset education never really regret that they do. It means that you don’t look at the world in the way that other people do, and if you were inclined to be a writer, that’s a help.” -John Keegan
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“I think we spend too much on K-12 education a.k.a. teachers’ salaries. It’s the only industry where you never see any productivity increases.” -Peter Brimelow
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“I’d like to work with kids in special education – younger kids.” -John Madden
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“The U.S. tries to provide immigrants who grow up here with a world-class education and imbue them with the can-do attitude that has long defined American innovation.” -Gary Locke
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“I think the most important issue for all of us is our economy and jobs and creating opportunities for young people to be able to get the education that you need to be able to afford to go to college.” -Debbie Stabenow
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“When they favor the access of other people to education and health care, the countries of the North not only demonstrate generosity or solidarity, but also implement the principles of respecting and promoting human rights.” -Omar Bongo
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“I did get a very fine education, and not just in science. It took some pressure on the part of my elders to convince me that I really should take an interest in humanities.” -Joshua Lederberg
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“My mum and dad had worked incredibly hard to afford me an education.” -Benedict Cumberbatch
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“My parents always made education and school the number one priority. They believed that an education is the best gift you can give to your child.” -Debra Messing
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“The message of women’s liberation is that women can love each other and ourselves against our degrading education.” -Jane Rule
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“The Recovery plan will put money in the pockets of the American worker, create and save millions of new jobs and invest in crucial areas such as health care, education, energy independence and a new infrastructure.” -Valerie Jarrett
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“I’m committed to universal health coverage and education.” -Carol Moseley Braun
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“I am a firm believer in education and have worked very hard to tell young Latinos that they must go to college and that, if possible, they should pursue an advanced degree. I am convinced that education is the great equalizer.” -Jimmy Smits
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“Good education means learning to read, write and most importantly learn how to learn so that you can be whatever you want to be when you grow up.” -Patty Murray
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“It was depressing, very depressing. I worried about how I would make a living. I didn’t want to stay on the farm. It didn’t offer the challenge I wanted and yet, without a college education, I felt that I was really out of luck.” -Clyde Tombaugh
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“I was in fashion school, my brother has a law background, and my sister-in-law had worked in production, but none of us had a proper fashion business education.” -Alexander Wang
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“Today, education is perhaps the most important function of state and local governments.” -Bobby Scott
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“A college education shows a man how little other people know.” -Thomas Chandler Haliburton
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“As long as she is talented enough and passionate about doing it herself then I will be happy and support her. I think I will be sensible – my parents said I could only do it if I got my education and so I had something to fall back on.” -Anna Friel
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“This is a value-added college education if I have heard one described. And what is the most remarkable about Delaware State University graduates – is they just keeping giving back.” -Michael N. Castle
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“The big shift in approach on education that we are taking – which is different from what happened before – is that we trust teachers and we trust heads.” -Michael Gove
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“The one thing we can do is invest in the quality of education, especially higher education.” -Ron Kind
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“The present structure of rewards in high schools produces a response on the part of an adolescent social system which effectively impedes the process of education.” -James S. Coleman
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“I scored a 910 on my SAT. I didn’t care about education. I don’t know what I cared about.” -Skeet Ulrich
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“For this reason, to study English literature without some general knowledge of the relation of the Bible to that literature would be to leave one’s literary education very incomplete.” -Lafcadio Hearn
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“The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset.” -Liberty Hyde Bailey
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“There have been studies that clearly state that children who are exposed to arts education at a young age will in fact do markedly better in their SAT tests.” -Marvin Hamlisch
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“Interactions between fathers and children are the starting point of education.” -Yoshihiko Noda
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“In our post-9/11 world, our Nation’s military deserves, at least the same access to institutions of higher education that any other major employer might enjoy.” -Mike Rogers
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“I’m sure everything has a bearing on what I’m doing. My family is a lower-middle-class family, there’s lots of children, seven brothers, two sisters grew up together, fighting with each other, went to school. My mother went to school up to 4th grade. My father went to school up to 8th grade. So that’s about…
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“Such schemes take money from people who can least afford to spend it to support an unneeded bureaucracy that eats money people thought they were providing for education.” -Jesse Helms
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“Let people have an education and you can’t stop them.” -La Monte Young
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“Years ago nobody was elected on the economic ticket. It was either the education platform, or it was health or it was other issues. It is only recently that economic values have superceded every other human value.” -Anita Roddick
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“The education cuts in the President’s budget are both irresponsible and morally unjustifiable.” -Chaka Fattah
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“I don’t think of myself as a policy expert. I think education is the most important thing.” -Jenna Bush
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“My father made sure that I had lots of levels of education – from ballroom-dancing to painting, commando training, theatre and magic.” -Baz Luhrmann
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“The parent knows instinctively that if they’re working and setting an example for their child that means that child is more likely to be in school, more likely to stay out of trouble and more likely to complete their education.” -John Engler
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“The first big break was winning a scholarship to go to Cambridge University. I was very lucky, because my parents couldn’t have afforded a university education for me. Without a scholarship I couldn’t possibly have gone.” -Trevor Nunn
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“Education is what remains when we have forgotten all that we have been taught.” -George Savile
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